Kai Ashante Wilson is an American author of

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active since 2013.

Biography

Wilson lives in New York City.Profile
at macmillan publishers.Profile
on Tor.com.

Literary career

Wilson was the 2010 Octavia Butler scholar at the San Diego Clarion Writing Workshop. His work has appeared in various periodicals, podcasts and anthologies, including '' Apex Magazine'', ''The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine'', ''The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten'', ''The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve'', ''Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars'', ''

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'', ''The Long List Anthology'', ''The Long List Anthology Volume 2'', ''

Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 ''Nebula Awards Showcase 2016'' is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short works edited by Mercedes Lackey. It was first published in trade paperback by Pyr in May 2016.

'', '' PodCastle'', ''Some of the Best From Tor.com'', ''The Stories: Five Years of Original Fiction on Tor.com'', '' Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany'', '' Tor.com'', ''The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016'', ''The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018'', and ''Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction''.

Awards

Wilson won the 2016 Crawford Award for best first novel for ''The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps''. His works have been shortlisted for the

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, Shirley Jackson Award, Theodore Sturgeon Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award.

Bibliography

Short novels / novellas

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The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps ''The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps'' is a 2015 LGBT science fantasy novella, the debut novella by Kai Ashante Wilson. It is set in the same fictional universe as his later novella ''A Taste of Honey'', as well as several of his short stories. It w ...

'' (2015) *''

A Taste of Honey ''A Taste of Honey'' is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 19. It was intended as a novel, but she turned it into a play because she hoped to revitalise British theatre and address social issues that ...

'' (2016), set in the same world as ''The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps''

Short fiction

*"Légendaire" (2013), set in the same world as the later ''The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps''
Super Bass
(2013), set in the same world as the later ''The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps''
The Devil in America
(2014) *"Kaiju maximus®: "'So Various, So Beautiful, So New'" (2015)
The Lamentation of Their Women
(2017)

Nonfiction

Strange Antecedents: A Personal Appreciation of Margo Lanagan's Novels
(2015)
The POC Guide to Writing Dialect In Fiction
(2016)

References

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